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Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is an etiological agent of classical swine fever. The structure protein E rns of CSFV assists in the initial attachment of the virus to the host cell and its subsequent entry. Newcastle disease virus (NDV) has been used as a virus vector to express different proteins successfully. The unique characters of NDV lying in its broad host spectrum and ease in production using embryonated chicken egg make it a choice of vector for expressing foreign gene. In the present work, we are reporting the characterization of the ribonuclease (RNase) activity of recombinant NDV expressing E rns of CSFV. The RNase activity of viral expressed recombinant E rns was found to be stable at a optimum temperature of 50 °C. The study will be useful to express and characterize an enzymatic protein in its native form using the NDV as a vector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]